What is geographical renaming?
Q: What is geographical renaming?
A: Geographical renaming is when a place's name gets changed.
Q: What are some reasons for geographical renaming?
A: Some reasons for geographical renaming can include countries joining together to form a new country, countries splitting apart to form new ones, a new government replacing or overthrowing the old one, changing a place's name to replace a name given by former colonizers with the name given by native people, and changing of standard spelling rules in the local language.
Q: How did the United Kingdom come about?
A: The United Kingdom was formed after the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland joined together in 1701. When Ireland joined in 1801, it became known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After Ireland gained independence from Britain, Northern Ireland stayed in the UK and it became known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Q: How did Leningrad come about?
A: After the Communist Party took over Russia and changed its name to Soviet Union, they wanted to honor their leader Vladimir Lenin so they renamed Saint Petersburg to Leningrad which symbolized turning away from Russia's system of absolute monarchy that ruled before them since Saint Petersburg was named after Peter The Great who founded it.
Q: Why did New Amsterdam become New York City?
A: After New Amsterdam was lost to British Empire, it was renamed New York City after Duke Of York.
Q: Why did Bombay become Mumbai?
A: After India gained independence from Britain they changed Bombay's name to Mumbai.
Q: What is Hanyu Pinyin?
A:Hanyu Pinyin is an accepted romanization for writing Mandarin Chinese using Roman alphabet which was created by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in mainland China in order to teach people how correctly pronounce Mandarin Chinese which resulted in many Chinese place names being changed including Peking becoming Beijing and Nanking becoming Nanjing although Taiwan also speaks Mandarin but spellings of Taiwanese place names are according different older spelling rules because many Taiwanese do not want use Hanyu Pinyin even though it is standard romanization worldwide due CCP creating it
